Fotuhi, Majid.
Summary: An internationally recognized neurologist presents a revolutionary brain-optimization program that, despite research to the contrary, proves that as humans get older, they can actually get smarter and increase their brain speed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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Summary: Explains the advantages of a plant-based diet for families with children and offers a collection of family-friendly vegan recipes for breakfast foods, soups, salads, sandwiches, snacks, main and side dishes, breads, and desserts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 BIAMalis, Carol.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherbo Pub. Group 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.4 MALHirono, Mazie
Summary: "Mazie Hirono is one of the most fiercely outspoken Democrats in Congress, but her journey to the U.S. Senate was far from likely. Raised poor on her family's rice farm in rural Japan, Hirono was seven years old when her mother left her abusive husband and sailed with her two elder children to the United States, crossing the Pacific in steerage in search of a better life. Though the girl then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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Summary: Presents a history of the golden age of physics in the early twentieth century, focusing on the central conflict between Einstein and Niels Bohr over the nature of reality and the soul of science.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.12 KUMMalik, Nesrine
Summary: "A rigorous examination of six political myths used to deflect and discredit demands for social justice. In 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump declared: "I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct." Reeling from his victory, Democrats blamed the corrosive effect of "identity politics." When banned from Twitter for inciting violence, Trump and his supporters...
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 MALChandrasekaran, Rajiv.
Summary: In this book, the author focuses on southern Afghanistan in the year of Obama's surge. This is the story of the long arc of American involvement, and of the campaign to salvage a victory in southern Afghanistan on Obama's watch., and reveals the epic tugof war that occurred between the President and a military that, once on the ground, increasingly went its own way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 CHAManji, Irshad.
Summary: A guide to finding the God of love within Islam explains how everyone can develop moral courage for a life defined by purpose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.5 MANManji, Irshad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 MANMahin, Michael
Summary: Carlos Santana loved to listen to his father play el violín. It was a sound that filled the world with magic and love and feeling and healing--a sound that made angels real. Carlos wanted to make angels real, too. So he started playing music. Carlos tried el clarinete and el violín, but there were no angels. Then he picked up la guitarra. He took the soul of the Blues, the brains of Jazz, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2018
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Summary: ""Your Child Is Not Broken" is THE book for parents who need permission to do things differently. Heidi Mavir almost died working out why that was necessary. Part autobiography, part parenting manual, "Your Child Is Not Broken" is a no-holds-barred account of Heidi Mavir's discovery of her child's neurodivergence. It is the funny, irreverent and brutally honest story of Heidi's fight to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bluebird 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 649.152 MAVWicks, Maris
Summary: Explores coral reef ecosystems, detailing the organisms that live within the reefs, their importance in the ocean ecological system as a whole, and the scientific and medical advancements developed from coral reefs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2016
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Summary: "In Break the Good Girl Myth, women's leadership expert and podcast host Majo Molfino shares how design thinking methods can help women identify and dismantle the self-sabotaging myths that negatively impact their work, relationships, and wellbeing"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperColinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.3 MOLCoyne, Malie
Summary: An indispensable guide that empowers parents to understand and recognise anxiety in their children, and to help them to develop strategies to manage it together. Parents hold the key to helping their children with the strains of our always-on world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sixth & Spring Books 2006
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Summary: Welcome to the Human Body Theater, where your master of ceremonies is going to lead you through a theatrical revue of each and every biological system of the human body! Starting out as a skeleton, the MC puts on a new layer of her costume (her body) with each "act." By turns goofy and intensely informative, the Human Body Theater is always accessible and always entertaining.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 611 WICTill-Mobley, Mamie
Summary: The mother of Emmett Till, a black teenager whose 1955 murder ignited the civil rights movement, discusses the crime, her despair over the acquittal of the accused killers, and her struggle to overcome her grief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.134 TILMagida, Arthur J.
Summary: "The dramatic story of Noor Inayat Khan, secret agent for the British in occupied France. During the critical summer months of 1943, Noor Inayat Khan was the only wireless operator transmitting secret messages from Nazi-occupied France to the Special Operations Executive in England. She was a most unlikely spy. As the daughter of an Indian mystic, raised in a household devoted to peaceful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KHAN, NOOR INAYAT MAGFujiwara, Maki
Summary: "In 1981, Fujiwara Maki began a picture diary about daily life with her son and husband, the legendary manga author Tsuge Yoshiharu. Publishing was not her original intention. "I wanted to record our family's daily life while our son, Shosuke, was small. But as 8mm cameras were too expensive and we were poor, I decided on the picture diary format instead. I figured Shosuke would enjoy reading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FUJIWARA, MAKI FUJGarrett, Major
Summary: "The Big Truth illuminates a crowning achievement in America's quest for a robust democracy in the face of slander by sore losers and opportunists. Filled with interviews of the guardians of democracy--election workers, January 6th Committee members Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) and Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland), Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and more--it is an overpowering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2022
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Summary: "The story of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TILScott-Clark, Cathy
Summary: "Six months after 9/11, CIA and FBI agents captured Abu Zubaydah, mistakenly believed to be number three in the Al Qaeda hierarchy. Frantic to thwart a much-feared second attack, the U.S. rendered him to a black site in Thailand. There he collided with Air Force psychologist James Mitchell. Believing that Abu Zubaydah had been trained to resist interrogation, Mitchell and others were authorized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2022
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Summary: Presents the life of blues legend Muddy Waters, describing how he persisted with his interest in music despite a lack of encouragement from his family and record producers, leading him to Chicago where he was able to record his unique country blues sound.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAHShah, Rajiv Janardan
Summary: "Rajiv J. Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and former administrator of President Barack Obama's United States Agency for International Development, shares a dynamic new model for creating large scale change, inspired by his own involvements with some of the largest humanitarian projects of our time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Element 2023